My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in World War I. He was wounded in action. My father was a great success even though he never had money. He was a very determined man, a great role model.
We are constantly trying to cope with what our fathers or our grandfathers did. I wrote the book 'Great War of Civilization,' and my father was a solider in the First World War which produced the current Middle East - not that he had much to do with ...
With a book called 'Keeping Score,' I really did want to write a book about the Korean War, because I felt that it is the least understood war in the American cultural imagination. So I set out with the idea that Americans didn't know much about the ...
Yuri Orlov: [on the brisk trade in USSR weapons right after the Cold War ended] I have a feeling it wasn't exactly what Comrade Lenin had in mind when he advocated the redistribution of wealth. But I wasn't the only one offering a crash course in cap...
[a mine worker, formerly one of the Tuskegee Airmen, almost gets hit when he watches Homer launch a rocket] Leon Bolden: Homer, I flew with the Red Tails in World War II. And seein' that rocket come at me... it almost took me back there.
Patton: Thirty years from now, when you're sitting around your fireside with your grandson on your knee and he asks you, "What did you do in the great World War II," you won't have to say, "Well... I shoveled shit in Louisiana."
I really do think that if for one week in the United States we saw the true face of war, we saw people's limbs sheared off, we saw kids blown apart, for one week, war would be eradicated. Instead, what we see in the U.S. media is the video war game.
We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.
May the Force be with you.
This is what war does. Right here, in my hands. This is war.
We are against war and the sources of war. We are for poetry and the sources of poetry.
I only read books I know I will like
I know, but Jesus Kira, even Achilles had a weakness.
If you go to war with your mind, you will always be at war.
Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars.
Even a war zone looks peaceful in most places, most of the time.
All my grandparents and great aunts and uncle love 'Foyle's War.' They all lived through the war and love to see it reconstructed so authentically.
I didn't see 'Star Wars' in theaters until George Lucas re-tweaked it.
Han Solo: It's not my fault.
Lando Calrissian: Here goes nothing.
Han Solo: Wait, I know that laugh...
